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Santana-Moreno, Luis Daniel; Rojas-González, Ramón Isaac; Wakida-Kusunoki, Armando T. First record of Ambidexter symmetricus (Decapoda: Caridea: Processidae) from the Yucatán Peninsula Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, vol. 87, núm. 3, septiembre, 2016, pp. 1138-1140 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Distrito Federal, México

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Research note

First record of Ambidexter symmetricus (Decapoda: Caridea: Processidae)

from the Yucatán Peninsula

Primer registro de Ambidexter symmetricus (Decapoda: Caridea: Processidae)

en la península de Yucatán

a a,∗ b

Luis Daniel Santana-Moreno , Ramón Isaac Rojas-González , Armando T. Wakida-Kusunoki

Centro Regional de Investigación Pesquera de Lerma, Instituto Nacional de Pesca, Carretera Campeche – Lerma Km 5, 24500 Campeche, Campeche, Mexico

Centro Regional de Investigación Pesquera de Yucalpetén, Instituto Nacional de Pesca, Boulevard del Pescador, esquina Antigua carretera a Chelem,

Puerto de Abrigo, 97320 Yucalpetén, Yucatán

Received 17 September 2015; accepted 6 April 2016

Available online 25 August 2016

Abstract

The ﬁrst record of Ambidexter symmetricus from the Yucatán Peninsula is herein reported; extending the geographic range of the species to

the southeastern Gulf of Mexico. During monthly visits to Seybaplaya, Campeche in 2014, a total of 13 specimens were collected from May to

November; 1 specimen was male and the rest were ovigerous females, suggesting that this species has a continuous reproduction.

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Keywords: Geographical distribution; Campeche; Southeastern Gulf of Mexico

Resumen

Se presenta el primer registro de Ambidexter symmetricus para la península de Yucatán. Con este registro se extiende la distribución geográﬁca

conocida de esta especie al sureste del golfo de México. En visitas mensuales de mayo a noviembre del ano˜ ***2014 a Seybaplaya, Campeche,

se recolectaron 13 ejemplares de esta especie; 1 ejemplar macho y el resto hembras ovígeras, lo que muestra*** que esta especie presenta una

reproducción continua.

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Palabras clave: Distribución geográﬁca; Campeche; Sureste del golfo de México

Processidae, currently has 6 known genera and 69 recognized Chace, 1971, composed of only 3 species, is distributed in the

species, consists of small shrimp, which are mostly nocturnal western Atlantic Ocean and central Paciﬁc Ocean (Abele, 1972),

and inhabit a wide variety of substrates such as sandy ﬂat bot- with 1 report in the Gulf of California (Ríos & Carvacho, 1982).

toms, sharing burrows with other invertebrates such as annelid There are only 3 previous reports of the presence of A. sym-

worms and other crustaceans (Levitt, De Grave, & Shenkar, metricus Manning & Chace, 1971 in Mexico, 2 on the Atlantic

2014). They are particularly abundant in shallow waters with sea coast: Manning and Chace (1971) reported their presence in

grass and coral rubble as dominant substrates (Manning, 1992; Tamaulipas, and Álvarez, Villalobos, Rojas, and Robles (1999)

Manning & Chace, 1971). The genus Ambidexter Manning & suggested their presence in Veracruz; and 1 on the Paciﬁc coast:

Ríos and Carvacho (1982) report the presence of this species in

∗ the Gulf of California.

Corresponding author.

With the aim of studying the abundance of juveniles of

E-mail address: [email protected] (R.I. Rojas-González).

the pink shrimp Farfantepenaeus duorarum in the communi-

Peer Review under the responsibility of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de

México. ties of Seybaplaya, Champotón and Isla Arena, in the state of

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95º W 90º W 85º W 80º W

N 30º N

Gulf of 25º N Mexico

Isla Arena

20º N Seybaplaya

Champotón

0 150 300 600

Figure 1. Distribution map of Ambidexter symmetricus in the Gulf of Mexico, previous records (black circles; based on literature and biodiversity databases: GBIF,

2015; OBIS, 2015), new record (dark triangle) and locations where monitoring was performed (open circles).

Campeche, Mexico (Fig. 1), from May to November 2014, on Taxonomic identiﬁcation of these specimens was based on

1 night per month and during the new moon, we conducted 50 m the presence of chela on the ﬁrst pair of pereiopods and a stylo-

transects with an artisan net used for ﬁshing pink shrimp juve- cerite without a lateral spinule, which is considered the principal

niles consisting of a triangle that carries a trawl net with a mesh diagnostic characteristic for this species. Further characteristics

aperture of 0.6 cm. were compared to the original description of the species, such as

All captured shrimp were ﬁxed in 70% alcohol, deposited biﬁd tip of rostrum, presence of antennal spine, symmetrical sec-

in plastic bags and transported back to the laboratory. The taxo- ond pereiopods, number of articles on carpus of second perei-

nomic determination was based on the keys of Abele (1972). We opod (9 articles in 7 specimens, 10 articles in 6 specimens),

measured their post-orbital carapace length (POCL) with a digi- ﬁfth abdominal somite not armed, nor the other abdominal

tal caliper (±1 mm) and determined their sex by the presence or somites (Abele, 1972; Manning & Chace, 1971). Manning and

absence of the appendix masculina, and in the case of females, Chace (1971) described the color pattern of this species as light-

whether they were ovigerous. We took pictures of live specimens cream, white, or colorless background with the chromatophores

to record color patterns. The specimens collected were deposited arranged in a band across the anterior portion of the abdomen

in the Crustacean Collection of the Unidad Académica Sisal of with color also concentrated on pleura and appendages (there are

the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. no published pictures of living specimens in the literature). We

In the 7 months of surveys we collected 13 speci- found that all collected specimens of A. symmetricus exhibited

mens of Ambidexter symmetricus at the Seybaplaya location the same color pattern, consisting of a translucent white with a

◦ ◦

(19 38 50.58 N, 90 41 53.16 W) (Fig. 1). On May 27, 2014, red belt across the anterior portion of abdomen (Fig. 2).

we found 4 ovigerous females (YUC-CC-255-11-001726); Specimens of A. symmetricus were found at Seybaplaya; no

on June 25, 2 ovigerous females (YUC-CC-255-11-001727); specimens were found at Champotón despite their proximity and

on July 24, 1 male and 1 ovigerous female (YUC-CC- environmental similarity; nor were specimens found in the north-

255-11-001728); and on November 20, 5 ovigerous females ern location of Isla Arena. The absence of A. symetricus in these

(YUC-CC-255-11-001729). The specimens were collected at locations is not conclusive; it is necessary to perform speciﬁc

night at an average depth of 1 m on a substrate consisting monitoring to search for A. symmetricus in these 2 locations.

of sea grass and muddy seabed, with POCL ranging from The ﬁnding of this shrimp in Seybaplaya, extends the known

4.0 to 6.3 mm. The 12 ovigerous females found from May to distribution area of this species about 915 km south into the

November indicate that A. symmetricus continuously bred dur- Gulf of Mexico, from its nearest report in Tamaulipas (Manning

ing this period. & Chace, 1971). This is the ﬁrst report of this species in the

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y seguimiento del recurso camarón rosado (Farfantepenaeus

duorarum) en la sonda de Campeche.

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